[Dovecot] 2.0 migration weirdnesses: logs and hang

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:59 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> After that, while I can connect, log in, read mail, etc., no further 
> log messages are created.
> 
> I have log_path set to /dev/stderr, and no syslog_facility setting, 
> so... what could be going wrong?

I've never tried logging to /dev/stderr with v2.0. I guess it should be
possible to fix it..

> Second, when I create a new mailbox and copy messages across 
> namespaces, dovecot hangs. The mailbox is created and the messages are 
> copied successfully, but dovecot simply stops responding. I can't even 
> logout!

So you can easily reproduce this? Could you get gdb backtrace from the
hanging process?

gdb -p <pid of hanging imap process>
bt full